Shmuel Katz

The Old City of Jerusalem

Participation in salons: Grand Prix International de Peinture, Cannes, France 1958 Jeune peinture, Paris, France 1960-65 Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui, France 1960-85 des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1960-65 Comparaisons, Paris, France 1980 de Montrouge, France 1980-83 Nissan Engel's works are found in numerous private and public collections, including the following: Abright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York Bridgeston Museum, Tokyo The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan Elf Atochem Corporation, Paris Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California The Jewish Museum, New York City Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase Schlumberger Foundation, Paris Weizman Institute, Rehovot, Israel Nissan Engel graduated from the Beaux-Arts Bezalel in Jerusalem before receiving a diploma from the Centre Dramatic de L'Est in Strasbourg, France. He began his career designing costumes and sets for the theater in Paris. Engel moved to New York City in 1965 following a series of successful gallery exhibitions. His early work in Paris and New York was characteristic of his academic training and his subject matter was predominately figural and representational. He returned to Paris in 1975, and inspired by a flea market find of old sheet music...

Participation in salons: Grand Prix International de Peinture, Cannes, France 1958 Jeune peinture, Paris, France 1960-65 Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui, France 1960-85 des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1960-65 Comparaisons, Paris, France 1980 de Montrouge, France 1980-83 Nissan Engel's works are found in numerous private and public collections, including the following: Abright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York Bridgeston Museum, Tokyo The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan Elf Atochem Corporation, Paris Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California The Jewish Museum, New York City Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase Schlumberger Foundation, Paris Weizman Institute, Rehovot, Israel Nissan Engel graduated from the Beaux-Arts Bezalel in Jerusalem before receiving a diploma from the Centre Dramatic de L'Est in Strasbourg, France. He began his career designing costumes and sets for the theater in Paris. Engel moved to New York City in 1965 following a series of successful gallery exhibitions. His early work in Paris and New York was characteristic of his academic training and his subject matter was predominately figural and representational. He returned to Paris in 1975, and inspired by a flea market find of old sheet music...

Gregory Amenoff (Contemporary American abstract painter, b. 1948), Title: Haven, STATE II Lithograph, 1986 Edition 4/4 Printer Proof Image Size 21.5 x 30.75" Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation. He has had over fifty one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work has the influence of both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in it, biomorphic forms in rich hues and thick textures with heightened colors and abstracted, organic forms, late American Modernism. He moved to New York in 1979, the artist rose to critical acclaim in the 1980s alongside Terry Winters, Bill Jensen, and Katherine Porter. The artist lives and works between New York, NY and his Hudson Valley residence. Amenoff served as President of the National Academy of Design from 2001-2005. He is a founding board member of the CUE Art Foundation in New York City and serves as the CUE Art Foundation's Curator Governor. Amenoff has taught at Columbia for the last eighteen years, where he holds the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts and is currently the Chair of the Visual Arts Division in the School of the Arts. He is currently the Vice-President of the National Academy. In 2011 he received the John Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship. Museum Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, NY Art Institute of Chicago; IL Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Brooklyn, NY Butler Institute of American Art; Youngstown, OH Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, OH Currier Gallery of Art; Manchester, NH Frances and Sidney Lewis Foundation; Richmond, VA Hood Museum of Art; Hanover, NH Honolulu Academy of Art; Honolulu, HW Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Kansas City, MO Maier Museum of Art; Lynchburg, VA Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, NY Milwaukee Museum of Art; Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis Institute of Art; MN Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary; Williamsburg, VA Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY National Museum of American Art; Washington, DC Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase; NY New York Public Library, Spencer Collection...

Gregory Amenoff (Contemporary American abstract painter, b. 1948), Monotype Monoprint (1990) Hand signed in pencil lower right plate: 16 x 16 inches frame dimensions: 35 1/8 x 29 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches, wood frame with glazing Provenance: Corporate Collection of Bank BNP Paribas Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation. He has had over fifty one-person painting exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work has the influence of both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in it, biomorphic forms in rich hues and thick textures with heightened colors and abstracted, organic forms, late American Modernism. He moved to New York in 1979, the artist rose to critical acclaim in the 1980s alongside Terry Winters, Bill Jensen, and Katherine Porter. The artist lives and works between New York, NY and his Hudson Valley residence. He works in woodcut, lithograph and monoprint techniques. He was a collaborating artist illustrating Bradford Morrow, Bestiary along with Joe Andoe, James Brown, Vija Celmins, Louisa Chase, Eric Fischl, Jan Hashey, Michael Hurson, Mel Kendrick, James Nares, Ellen Phelan, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith, David Storey, Michelle Stuart, Richard Tuttle, Trevor Winkfield, Robin Winters. Linoleum cuts with pochoir and woodcuts for the Grenfell Press, New York. Amenoff served as President of the National Academy of Design from 2001-2005. He is a founding board member of the CUE Art Foundation in New York City and serves as the CUE Art Foundation's Curator Governor. Amenoff has taught at Columbia for the last eighteen years, where he holds the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts and is currently the Chair of the Visual Arts Division in the School of the Arts. He is currently the Vice-President of the National Academy. In 2011 he received the John Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship. Museum Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, NY Art Institute of Chicago; IL Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Brooklyn, NY Butler Institute of American Art; Youngstown, OH Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, OH Currier Gallery of Art; Manchester, NH Frances and Sidney Lewis Foundation; Richmond, VA Hood Museum of Art; Hanover, NH Honolulu Academy of Art; Honolulu, HW Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Kansas City, MO Maier Museum of Art; Lynchburg, VA Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, NY Milwaukee Museum of Art; Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis Institute of Art; MN Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary; Williamsburg, VA Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY National Museum of American Art; Washington, DC Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase; NY New York Public Library, Spencer Collection...

Artist: Christo Title: The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and the U.S.A. Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper Date: 1987 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 36 3/4" x 27...

Artist: Christo Title: The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City XIX Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper Date: 2004 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 28 1/4" x 4...

Bauxite Factory, Suriname Clarence Holbrook Carter American (1904–2000) Date: 1980 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 200, AP 30 Image Size: 17.75 x 26 inches Siz...

Untitled (Moulin Rouge and other Paris landmarks) Lithograph, 1926 Rare signed in pencil proof on chine paper (see photo) Lithograph from Joseph Delteil's "Allo, Paris," published by...